Dem State Senator 'Perplexed' by NY Health Commissioner at Nursing Home Hearing

Cortney O'Brien / Townhall Tipsheet

New York Health Commissioner Howard Zucker was in the hot seat during Monday's Joint Virtual Public Hearing on Residential Health Care Facilities and COVID-19. To put it more succinctly, a public hearing on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's nursing home mandate. On March 25, Gov. Cuomo enacted a measure to force long term care facilities to accept COVID patients who had been discharged from hospitals.

It was a bipartisan grilling, with some of the most aggressive questions coming from Democratic lawmakers. Cuomo described COVID-19 in nursing homes as "a fire through dry grass."

"It's up to the legislature as to who lit the match," said Democratic state senator James Skoufis.

According to current state data, 6,000 people have died in New York nursing homes so far. The actual number is expected to be much higher.

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